Author Archives: Mrs Sutherland

Supporting Literacy Development

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Dear Families

Here are some links to websites which you may find useful in supporting your child’s Literacy development. We hope that you find them helpful.

Mrs Sutherland and Mrs Grenfell
SfL Department

• Free access to games during Coronavirus situation https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
• Free access during Coronavirus situation https://readingeggs.co.uk/coronavirus-covid-19/
• Free audio books https://stories.audible.com/discovery
• Touch Typing with BBC DanceMat https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr
• Touch typing, literacy and memory activities www.doorway.online.org.uk
• Memory and Learning Skills app Dyslexia Quest (not free) https://www.nessy.com/uk/apps/dyslexia-quest/
• Phonics app (not free) Phonics with Phonograms for iOS devices, sold on Apple App Store
• Literacy games online https://www.ducksters.com/games/
• Support Website for children and young people www.unwrapped.dyslexiascotland.org.uk
• My Study Bar portable tools to support planning, reading, writing, voice and vision for older pupils with literacy difficulties www.eduapps.org
• Natural Reader Free text-to-speech toolbar www.naturalreaders.com
• Seeing AI (app) from Microsoft; reads text in front of device camera

Pancake Day !

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Lots of learning of Literacy and Numeracy this morning. All in the course of making pancakes! We had to weigh, divide, read instructions and describe the taste of the pancakes. All without setting off the smoke alarm!

Here we are enjoying our treats.

The Brock Garden Centre Visit

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Last week Mrs Sutherland and Mrs Stevenson took the children on a lovely sunny walk to The Brock Garden Centre in Broxburn.

There were pink and yellow and blue flowers. There were daisies and they were yellow and white. We felt compost and it was cold because it had been out all night in the potting shed. We saw apples on the trees but they weren’t ready. We saw statues of animals and one was a badger. A badger can be called a brock and that is the name of the garden centre. We went in a greenhouse and saw spider plants and a plant called aloe vera which helps with sunburn in hot countries and it was jaggy to keep animals from eating it. The greenhouse was warm and there was a bit to water plants. Some plants grow from seeds and you water them.

Written by Kenzie, Brandyn, Skye, Kayleigh, Kyle and Dean

Outdoor Learning in Primary 4

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Primary 4 had a creative outdoor learning morning on Monday. We discussed how to use natural materials to make pictures and showed good teamwork. Look at our haunted mansions, rockets and skeletons!